Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT Librarieshttp://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNT/browse/?sort=added_d&start=30&fq=untl_collection:ESDC2015-03-25T15:07:16-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT LibrariesChina's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change (2012)2015-03-25T15:07:16-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501479/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501479/"><img alt="China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change (2012)" title="China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change (2012)" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501479/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>The Chinese government attaches great importance to the issue of climate change.It defines the objectives, tasks and policy orientation of China’s response to climate change over the next five years and identifies key tasks, including controlling greenhouse gas emissions, adapting to climate change, and strengthening international cooperation.</p>Final Vermont Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reference Case Projections, 1990-20302013-10-14T11:52:30-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226803/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226803/"><img alt="Final Vermont Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reference Case Projections, 1990-2030" title="Final Vermont Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reference Case Projections, 1990-2030" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226803/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This report estimates the anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sinks for Vermont from 1990-2030.</p>Immediate Action Workgroup: Recommendations to the Governor's Subcabinet on Climate Change2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226595/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226595/"><img alt="Immediate Action Workgroup: Recommendations to the Governor's Subcabinet on Climate Change" title="Immediate Action Workgroup: Recommendations to the Governor's Subcabinet on Climate Change" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226595/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This report identifies immediate priorities for addressing climate change in Alaska. The report profiles plans for infrastructure in several towns in Alaska which already have losses and significant risks to infrastructure as a result of climate change.</p>Getting Back in the Game: U.S. Job Growth Potential from Expanding Clean Technology Markets in Developing Countries2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226551/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226551/"><img alt="Getting Back in the Game: U.S. Job Growth Potential from Expanding Clean Technology Markets in Developing Countries" title="Getting Back in the Game: U.S. Job Growth Potential from Expanding Clean Technology Markets in Developing Countries" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226551/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This report highlights a significant, but rarely discussed, economic angle to the Senate’s deliberations on the American Power Act. Unlike the House-passed climate bill, which set aside one percent of revenues from emissions auctions for international clean technology investments, the American Power Act contains no such dedicated funding stream nor a program to guide these public investments. This lack of secure, long-term funding would limit the job-creating potential of the legislation by limiting the opportunities for American companies to export their energy technology to global markets.</p>Two Degree is Too Much! Impacts of 2°C Global Warming On Antarctic Penguins2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226555/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226555/"><img alt="Two Degree is Too Much! Impacts of 2°C Global Warming On Antarctic Penguins" title="Two Degree is Too Much! Impacts of 2°C Global Warming On Antarctic Penguins" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226555/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This research shows perennial Arctic ice is melting by nearly 10% a decade. It’s on course to disappear entirely by the end of the century. This means polar bears, walrus and seals living on the ice could become extinct. Many other Arctic species would also feel severe impacts. The fears of Inuit communities from Greenland to eastern Russia are also covered in the WWF report. Global warming puts traditional hunting and food-sharing at great risk." Sixty per cent of the tundra habitat of birds like ravens, snow buntings, falcons, loons, sandpipers and terns could be lost in the 2°C warming scenario. Migratory birds will lose vital staging and breeding grounds, affecting biodiversity around the world. So, two degrees? It’s too much!</p>Climate Change:Why We Need to Take Action Now2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226583/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226583/"><img alt="Climate Change:Why We Need to Take Action Now" title="Climate Change:Why We Need to Take Action Now" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226583/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>Numerous independent analyses indicate that we must limit climate change to less than 2ºC above preindustrial temperatures to avoid dangerous impacts to nature, humans, and the global economy.Average global warming of 2°C will result in dangerous and irreversible effects, which rapidly worsen above 2°C warming.This paper seeks to identify the massive difference between the impacts that will happen at 2 and 3°C.</p>Buying Time: A User’s Manual for Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226578/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226578/"><img alt="Buying Time: A User’s Manual for Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems" title="Buying Time: A User’s Manual for Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226578/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This publication is meant for Protected Areas Managers. It gives detailed information about assessing occurring and possible damage from climate change and fending off the damage - buying time for our protected areas while the world works out the only long-term solution - reducing CO2 emissions.</p>UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Afghanistan2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226593/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226593/"><img alt="UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Afghanistan" title="UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Afghanistan" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226593/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections</p>Conserving Nature - Partnering with People brochure on WWF's work on protected areas2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226562/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226562/"><img alt="Conserving Nature - Partnering with People brochure on WWF's work on protected areas" title="Conserving Nature - Partnering with People brochure on WWF's work on protected areas" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226562/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>WWF is working harder than ever to establish a global network of ecologically representative and effectively managed land, freshwater, and marine protected areas. With 40 years experience, targeted conservation goals, and projects combining practical field implementation with highlevel policy work in over 100 countries, we are uniquely placed to lead protected area work into the 21st century.</p>UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Pakistan2013-10-14T10:54:56-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226592/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226592/"><img alt="UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Pakistan" title="UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Pakistan" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc226592/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections</p>